Sri Aurobindo's Evolutionary Philosophy

Central to Aurobindo’s philosophy and cosmology is the idea that man is
a "transitional being", evolutionarily intermediate between the natural
and the divine stages of existence. According to Aurobindo, the Divine
or Absolute Consciousness, descends down through the various stages of
existence until it finally becomes inanimate Matter. From there,
evolution once again proceeds upwards through the stages of Life and Mind
(which latter is the level attained by humankind) to the final culmination
of Divine Supermind. Here we have a grand cycle of involution and evolution, a sort of spiritual or metaphysical extension of Darwinian thinking,
and a theme that is also central to the various Theosophical, Neo-Theosophical,
Anthroposophical, and "New Age" cosmologies.

Sri Aurobindo's Doctrine of the Involution and Evolution
and Consciousness